The original Art work?

A question I was asked about a blog I wrote, the subject was about always doing your own work and it being original work.

The writer asked me what should they do as they paint realism and portraits not original work?

What I would like to do is correct a misunderstanding that might have come across in what I am saying, original work is not just abstract work.

I believe any painting that you do, be it realism or abstract is original Art work if it has comes from you and is not a copy of someone else’s painting.

The impressionists did original work and they painted real places.

Picasso's Blue Period was as original as his cubism and his later portraits and women, it was all original Art work done by him.

I have no problem with portraits being original Art work if they are your work and not copies of someone else's work.

My issue is not the way you paint or whatever discipline you paint in, abstraction, realism, landscapes, still life, portraits, the issue is that it is your original Art work coming from you.

Copying someone else does not make it your work, it is a copy, no matter how good it may be, it is always just a copy.

It takes no talent or original thought to copy a painting, just the willingness to do it and the technical skill to do so, that's not original art that's copying.

So if you paint townscapes or landscapes or portraits or whatever you want, as long as it is your original work and it is not copied from someone else, then it is original Art work.

I believe that is what all Artists are striving to do, create their own original paintings.

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